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Support Offered by Auckland Badminton

Here is some of the support your club can get and what you get for your affiliation fee as a club

• Growing Members – Each club has an on line profile on our website to help support and show your club to others.  There are also links on Sport Auckland’s page, and our site on Sports Ground  as well as links on our facebook and twitter pages all year round
• Promotion campaigns – while small these also help by using community radio, community tv ads, community paper what’s on columns, and letter drops as well as email and web based promotions to promote our clubs as a whole

• Promotion Posters and Brochures - we have some cheap affordable good quality posters that we provide at cost price.  On club posters we have a large white space that your club can add it's own contact details too as well as the capacity to provide you with some free promotion brochures for your club.
• Funding – we will help you do the funding application and with some quotes such as for shuttles, rackets, coaching (and if using our hall, hall hire quotes).  You must be affiliated to an Association to get funding as we must be affiliated to the National Body.
• Negotiation – we have a good track record at helping clubs with negotiations of hall rates
• Volunteer recruitment – we have helped clubs recruit people for committees and helping on rosters during club nights
• Coaching – we have a range of coaches that we can put you in touch with
• Planning and budgeting – having trouble setting that budget or looking beyond the next couple of months – pop in and we can have a chat and help you out.
• Shuttles – we offer affiliated clubs a very special deal on shuttle prices and we get the very best shuttles tested and approved to ensure they will last and provide you with value for money.
• Competitions – how to run and trial new competitions at your club

Tips that Can Help Your Club or Committee Members

The Volunteer Tool Kit Click here     (back to top)

Something I developed at Badminton NZ and gives an overview of a range of areas, case studies and tools that have worked - you can also do the club health check if you choose.

How to Become an Incorporated Society Click here    (back to top)

(Courtesy of Simon Maister - former NZ National Development Manager Badminton NZ)

Additional Info:  Note you can access information on this at www.societies.govt.nz and a free calling helpline which is very good at 0508-762-438.  This can help protect committee members from financial liability and allow to access many more agencies for funding.

Auckland's Q&A Board Click here    (back to top)

A new tool allowing you to ask a question or post a reply to a question about anything to do with badminton.  You can also post suggestions or ideas.  We will do our best to reply quickly to any question or idea you suggest and you an also reply on line to any question posted

Volunteers (back to top)

The Volunteer Recruitment Guide Click here   (back to top)

Tips on how to successfully recruit volunteers in the modern environment.   These tools work and have been used successfully to recruit over 100 people at the NZ Open International in 2005 and 2006 to 20 people to do roster duty at Auckland clubs in 2007.  If you need further assistance with recruitment call Cliff on 021-155-7227 - personal help available to Auckland clubs only.

The Basics are: 

- Recruit in person one on one (don't make a general announcements or rely on email)

- If you are not comfortable approaching people get someone who is to help you

- Make a list of who you want - pick your best team proactively - a wish list

- Never assume someone will or will not volunteer don't believe the myths e.g. that parents won't help etc

- Go for many people but short time commitment (e.g. 10 club night duty people doing 4 nights a year is much easier than trying to get 5

  people to do 8 nights)

- Be flexible - if someone wants do give just 2 hours a year consider taking them it's all help plus they may do more in future years

- Expect performance - if someone doesn't show up more than once drop them and make it clear to everyone that you have dropped them

  get people who are good enough so it becomes a matter of pride to volunteer.

- Make a plan and get agreement on time and dates volunteers are committed to at the start of the year so they can plan their lives too and

  not get any surprises

Auckland Badminton's Job and Volunteer Database Click here   (back to top)

You can register as a volunteer or post a job that you need filled and this will be published here also.  The ABA will also be adding to this with it's own recruiting. Note you can do anything you like for as long as you like. E.g. you may want to coach for 1 hour a month or do a line at just one event per year you determine your level of commitment and we simply match that to  possible jobs for you.  You can even be from outside the association, a parent, spectator, player etc anyone can join in.  .This is designed to build up a database of people from coaches, lines people, people keen to help at club nights anything.  You determine how much you are happy committing to - it could be as little as 1 hour a year.  Volunteers can use tag names if you choose and no email details will be published although you can if you choose publish your phone no.

Funding (back to top)

The Funding Guide Click here    (back to top)

 Tips on those little details you need to make a successful funding application.   So far in 2008 Auckland has had a 100% success rate with assisted club funding applications so again this stuff works.  If you need extra help or advice call Cliff on 021-155-7227 - personal help available to Auckland clubs only.

Extra Tips:

1) Most funding trusts have in the last two years put accommodation and travel as low priority and some even on the non approved list.  High priority tends to be put on operational costs - hall hire, salaries, shuttles.

IRD TAX Exemption Letter Click here   (back to top)

2) Lion Foundation Applications - if applying to them you must first get a tax exemption letter from the IRD - allow 3 months for this at least.  Click here for information on how to apply for a tax exemption letter.  Note check with them as this may not apply if you are a registered charitable trust.

3) Southern Trust no longer have pubs in the Auckland Area.

Promotion  (back to top)

Even if full it pays to promote for two reasons. 1 it gives you a reserve waiting list should numbers fall, and can help attract sponsors.

Brochures and posters are available from the ABA on request.